Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6204 15 Mar 2026, 11:13

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Hardware failures 95 0 0 0 0 95 12 0 12 10:40.249 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Hardware failures
In order to update my failing hardware before I lose data As a Tails user I want to be warned about hardware failures
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
29.090
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given a computer 0.077
And SquashFS is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.829
Then the computer boots Tails 26.417
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
28.979
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.071
And boot device is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.916
Then the computer boots Tails 26.589
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 1.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product @broken_welcome_screen
31.367
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given a computer 0.061
And boot device with a target error is damaged in a way that some read operations fail 0.000
When I start the computer 0.841
Then the computer boots Tails 27.033
And I see a disk failure message on the splash screen 3.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product @doc
27.539
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.080
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.994
When Tails detects disk read failures on the SquashFS 1.268
Then I see a disk failure message 0.798
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 17.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.256
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.083
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.086
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.414
Then I see a disk failure message 1.754
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
27.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.102
And I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.416
When Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device with a target error 0.348
Then I see a disk failure message 1.477
Then I can open the hardware failure documentation from the disk failure message 16.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.967
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.743
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup header 0.294
And I power off the computer 0.264
When I start the computer 1.001
Then the computer boots Tails 44.143
When I log in to a new session 11.679
And all notifications have disappeared 7.693
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.141
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
Tags: @product
1:7.728
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.202
And I corrupt the boot device's GPT backup partition table 0.255
And I power off the computer 0.281
When I start the computer 0.845
Then the computer boots Tails 39.216
When I log in to a new session 11.586
And all notifications have disappeared 7.189
Then I am recommended to migrate to a new USB stick due to partitioning errors 0.145
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:37.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.083
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_gpt_corruption=gpt_backup,gpt_backup_table" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.033
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.174
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 59.143
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.642
And the Greeter forbids creating a persistent partition 0.051
When I log in to a new session 11.300
And all notifications have disappeared 7.360
Then I am recommended to reinstall Tails due to partitioning errors 0.153
# We are gonna verify the dialog again so we need to clean up the
# first instance.
And I close the "zenity" window 1.218
And I am told that Persistent Storage cannot be created 1.787
And Tails detected partitioning error partitioning-corruption 0.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.199
Tags: @product
1:17.017
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given a computer 0.076
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=guid" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.011
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.022
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.072
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:0.961
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.587
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.057
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.036
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.184
And Tails detected partitioning error guid-not-randomized 0.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.192
Tags: @product
1:10.861
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given a computer 0.075
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=part_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.013
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.025
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 14.945
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 53.836
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.630
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.054
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.045
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.227
And Tails detected partitioning error system-partition-not-resized 0.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.195
Tags: @product
1:20.159
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given a computer 0.090
And I set Tails to boot with options "test_partitioning_errors=fs_resize" 0.000
And I temporarily create a 7200 MiB disk named "temp" 0.014
And I plug USB drive "temp" 1.029
And I write the Tails USB image to disk "temp" 15.259
When I start Tails from USB drive "temp" with network unplugged 1:2.891
Then Tails is running from USB drive "temp" 0.592
And the Greeter recommends reinstalling Tails due to partitioning errors 0.051
And the Greeter forbids starting Tails 0.035
And the Greeter forbids all settings but language 0.190
And Tails detected partitioning error fs-not-resized 0.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.131